My first map is about a journey of a bunch of internet celebrities that I might be a little bit too obsessed with. Regardless, they had recently did a sponsored video where they have to go to different locations in LA, finish tasks, and the first team to finish all tasks wins the challenge! So, using some of my art and the art they had in the video, I created the following map. Using color to represent which team was ahead during the journey, as well as images to describe the tasks and highlight the team, I displayed the journey in a very simple manner. The one thing that might be confusing is that even though Team Rocket arrived at the final destination first, Team Pikachu won because they finished the task first.
The AI map was a way for me to kind of kick back and relax to see what horrible prompt the AI could generate. I initially wanted DALL-E to draw a complete map, but I felt that the messy handwriting would not do it for me. Thus, I instead opted to tell Chat-GPT to “surprise me with a fun little code to plot your own map” and this is what it generated for me.
For the arctic map, I wanted to revisit an old friend of mine: Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI). I wanted to find a way to get NDSI data and map the NDSI for an Arctic region, and truly see how much snow there is. Luckily, it would seem that there is still a lot of snow in Nunavut, and even the water was frozen when the tif image was created. This data was actually collected through Google Earth Engine
For the new tool map, I wanted to try making a 3D map. In fact, I was going to make a second 3D map originally, but this was very time consuming and so I kept this extremely simple map for the new tool map. This is a map of Niigata and Nagano Prefectures in Japan, which is the home of the largest river in the Country, alongside many other rivers, too. Simply put, this is a map of the river in the two regions, and additionally elevation is shown as well to capture the 3d element.